In a Perfect World
This is the way the world ends... It was a fairy tale come true when Mark Dorn—handsome pilot, widower, tragic father of three—chose Jiselle to be his wife. The other flight attendants were jealous: She could quit now, leaving behind the million daily irritations of the job. (Since the outbreak...
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This is the way the world ends... It was a fairy tale come true when Mark Dorn—handsome pilot, widower, tragic father of three—chose Jiselle to be his wife. The other flight attendants were jealous: She could quit now, leaving behind the million daily irritations of the job. (Since the outbreak of the Phoenix flu, passengers had become even more difficult and nervous, and a life of constant travel had grown harder.) She could move into Mark Dorn's precious log cabin and help him raise his three beautiful children. But fairy tales aren't like marriage. Or motherhood. With Mark almost always gone, Jiselle finds herself alone, and lonely. She suspects that Mark's daughters hate her. And the Phoenix flu, which Jiselle had thought of as a passing hysteria (when she had thought of it at all), well . . . it turns out that the Phoenix flu will change everything for Jiselle, for her new family, and for the life she thought she had chosen. From critically acclaimed author Laura Kasischke comes a novel of married life, motherhood, and the choices we must make when we have no choices left.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061766114 (0061766119)
Publish date: October 6th 2009
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 326
Edition language: English
I guess it really was just an end of times book. Well played Ms. Kasischke.
There were no zombies to fend off, no hostile alien take-over, no invading foreign country, but I really enjoyed this journey into a totally plausible dystopian future.The beginning took a little umph to get off the ground, but get past that and you have a young woman struggling to deal with a disap...
This was interesting to read and I'm up for reading just about anything about disease and the plague, but this only got 3 stars from me, simply because of the ending. It felt like a random point was picked in their lives and "the end" was tacked on. So many things we'll never know, so many unresolve...
This was interesting to read and I'm up for reading just about anything about disease and the plague, but this only got 3 stars from me, simply because of the ending. It felt like a random point was picked in their lives and "the end" was tacked on. So many things we'll never know, so many unresolve...
This book wasn't what I expected at all. It kept my interest but I'm still wondering about the ending. Would love to hear what others think.